{"id":146,"date":"2010-04-16T15:03:17","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T15:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ecotronics.ch\/wordpress\/?p=146"},"modified":"2012-04-03T12:12:34","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T12:12:34","slug":"changing-the-email-batch-size-in-limesurvey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ecotronics.ch\/wordpress\/?p=146","title":{"rendered":"Changing the email batch size in LimeSurvey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If sending tokens for a large survey, you might run into problems with your provider, because sending several mails at the same time might qualify you as a <strong>spammer<\/strong>. The <strong>default batch size for the emails<\/strong> sent from LimeSurvey is <strong>50<\/strong>. It is possible to reduce this number, but in older versions this is not so easy.<\/p>\n<p>In LimeSurvey versions &lt;= 1.86 there is no user interface to change the value for advanced features of the general settings. The only possibility to change such settings is <strong>looking them up in config-defaults.php<\/strong> and then <strong>manually adding them to config.php.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For the mail batch size the following line has to be added:<\/p>\n<pre>$maxemails\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 =\u00a0\u00a0 25;<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to reduce the email batch size in older versions of LimeSurvey by editing config.php. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[130,6,48,5,3],"tags":[49,292,50,51],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ecotronics.ch\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ecotronics.ch\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ecotronics.ch\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ecotronics.ch\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ecotronics.ch\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ecotronics.ch\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":910,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ecotronics.ch\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions\/910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ecotronics.ch\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ecotronics.ch\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ecotronics.ch\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}